Ex-NE Pa. police chief sentenced in sex case

SCRANTON (AP) — A former northeastern Pennsylvania police chief accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl almost a decade ago has been sentenced to 18 months to four years in prison.

SCRANTON (AP) — A former northeastern Pennsylvania police chief accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl almost a decade ago has been sentenced to 18 months to four years in prison.

The Times-Tribune of Scranton reported that Larry Semenza, 49, was sentenced Monday in Lackawanna County Court. A jury convicted the former Old Forge chief of corrupting a minor and failing to report suspected child abuse, but acquitted him of four other charges, including felony counts of aggravated indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor.

Prosecutors said Semenza and former police Capt. Jamie Krenitsky assaulted the girl beginning in 2004 when she was 15 and a junior firefighter.

Krenitsky and a former borough firefighter both pleaded guilty to misdemeanor indecent assault and received lighter sentences.